As Rich Text fields don’t work with Word’s auto-numbering, you have to use a Multiline Text field. But Multiline fields doesn’t have styling options like a Rich Text field. Fortunately, you can still add formatting to the text using simple HTML tags.
Using HTML language will allow you to keep your auto-numbering intact while giving you the ability to add some styling.
Let’s start with the basics of HTML:
- Tags are used to mark up the start of an HTML element and they are usually enclosed in angle brackets: “< >”
- Tags must be open with “< >” and closed “</ >”, and you place your text in between those tags.
For instance:
<b>Hello World</b> displays as Hello World
<i>Hello World</i> displays as Hello World
Key HTML styling elements:
<b> Bold
<i> Italic
<u> Underlined Text
equal to a Space
<br> equal to a Break
<ul> and <li> Bullet Point List
<ul> starts an unordered list (not using sequential numbers or letters), and <li> for each bullet
point or list item)
<h1> inserts Heading1 Styles formatting
<h2> inserts Heading 2 Style formatting
Sample document using HTML in a Multiline Text field to create the formatting
The document has “Normal” style formatting, and we want the Heading to inherit “Heading 1 style” and create the formatting how it appears in the image here:
Here’s the HTML + the text in the Multiline field:
Here is this field in a document, if you want to take a closer look.
Formatting Multiline text with HTML.docx (25.2 KB)